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Students

Guillermo: Asian American History Shows Why Travel Ban Unjust

The media mostly forgot that Sunday marked the 75th anniversary of President Roosevelt signing an executive order authorizing the roundup and incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry.

February 20, 2017

Students

University of Alaska System Agrees to Resolve Issues in Federal Review

JUNEAU, Alaska — The University of Alaska system has agreed to resolve issues stemming from a federal review of its handling of campus sexual assault and sexual harassment cases. The agreement, signed by system President Jim Johnsen on Friday and released Monday, outlines steps the system will need to take over the next several years. […]

February 20, 2017

Students

Aztecas del Norte: We Cannot be Illegal on Our Own Continent

Scholars in Chicano studies and related disciplines, since the 1960s, have long debated the idea of when Mexican Americans as a people(s) came to be.

February 19, 2017

Students

Professor: Implementation of Leaked Immigration Proposal Would be ‘Cataclysmic’

A leaked memo that included plans to use the National Guard to round up unauthorized immigrants, some scholars say, harks back to — and portends — one of the darkest chapters in American history.

February 19, 2017

Students

Bob Jones U to Get Tax-exempt Status Back After 30 Years

GREENVILLE, S.C. —A conservative Christian university in South Carolina is getting its federal tax-exempt status back 30 years after losing it over a ban on interracial dating. Bob Jones University President Steve Pettit told The Greenville that the ban was dropped in 2000 and a former university president apologized for discrimination eight years later. But […]

February 19, 2017

African-American

Economist: Education Alone Won’t Close Racial Wage Gap

Though Black college graduates generally fare better than Black high school graduates, higher education has not proven sufficient to remedy America’s racial wage gap, a leading labor economist said recently during a Black History Month lecture.

February 16, 2017

Women

UVa Administrator Files Gender Discrimination Lawsuit

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — An administrator at the University of Virginia is suing the school for alleged gender and disability discrimination. Media outlets report UVA assistant vice provost Becky Ackerson filed a lawsuit against the UVA Board of Visitors Wednesday claiming the school knowingly paid her less than male counterparts. According to the lawsuit, Ackerson was […]

February 16, 2017

Students

Universities Tell Judge Travel Ban Hurts Schools, Students

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s travel ban already has harmed some of the nation’s top universities, stranding students, faculty and scholars abroad and making foreign schools more attractive to some of the world’s brightest students, lawyers for the learning institutions told a federal judge. The schools said in papers filed Monday in Brooklyn federal […]

February 14, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Diverse Docket: Judge Throws Out Discrimination Suit Against Spalding U.

A former doctoral student at Spalding University isn’t entitled to readmission or to damages after a federal judge in Kentucky threw out his discrimination suit.

February 13, 2017

Students

The Continued Undermining of Black History

President Trump in his awkward and ill-informed efforts to salute the accomplishments of Black Americans actually managed to marginalize and obscure the important contributions that were made by these individuals and their contemporaries.

February 12, 2017

Students

Yale Removes Slave Proponent’s Name from Residence Hall

After a wave of student protests, Yale University announced over the weekend that it would remove the name of John C. Calhoun—a Yale alumnus—who was a proponent of slavery, from an undergraduate residence hall.

February 12, 2017

Students

Guillermo: Under Trump, Education Loses Out to Distractions

After just three weeks, you’ve got to hand it to Trump 45. He’s terrorized us all and shaken up politics in America.

February 12, 2017